Concepedia

Beam-Steering All-Optical Switch for Multi-Core Fibers

Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad, A.D. Parker, Bryan H. King, Daryl Smith, Máté Kovács, Saurabh Jain, J. R. Hayes, M. N. Petrovich, David J. Richardson, Nick Parsons

Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2017 · 19 citations · 5 references

Abstract

We report on the development of the first multi-lane all-optical switch with directly integrated multi-core fibers. A 3-port single-sided beam-steering switch connecting 4-core fibers shows core-to-core losses below 2.2 dB with less than 1-dB variation.

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